Hard Drive

[glorybound]

I am still trying to solve blue screen issues with DELL. The motherboard didn’t fix it, so today they replaced the hard drive. I just now noticed that when they replaced the hard drive a couple years ago, they installed a mechanical drive, to replace my SSD drive. The company I purchased the DELL from I guess upgraded to the SSD for me, but when DELL fixed it, they replaced it with what originally came with it. I guess technically, it wasn’t a DELL warranty issue when the drive went bad, but nobody caught it and I had no idea that it originally came with the mechanical drive. I have 4 bays for drives, if I were to buy a few SSD drives, is it best to have my OS and software on the SSD or is it best on the mechanical drive? I know it’ll boot faster on the SSD, but wouldn’t my texture and materials load faster on the SSD? Since I am installing Windows from scratch and I knew it was going to be a machinable drive I would have purchased a new SSD. Do you think it would be worth stopping my install on this new mechanical drive and just install an SSD anyway?

[glorybound]

Ok, it seems SSD is a no brainer for the OS.

[glorybound]

I picked me up a 6Gb/s SSD, so now I should fly. I was horrified to find out that they replaced my SSD with a mechanical drive a couple of years ago; I should have payed attention.

[francomanko]

yeah that sounds bad, 6gb/s so how fast are you actually getting in MB/s when in use?

[glorybound]

I am still working on getting things installed. I was not looking forward to this and now I remember why.

[suurland]

6Gb/s is just the specs for SATA III, not the speed of the drive.

[glorybound]

It's still screaming fast. Autosaves in MAX that took about 30 seconds are now almost instant. Well, worth the trouble up upgrading.